Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 3:13 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2000, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haywood County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Waynesville, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 280 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 031913 SVRGSP NCC087-032000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 313 PM EDT WED MAY 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 313 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER WAYNESVILLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SUNBURST AT 340 PM EDT CRUSO AT 400 PM EDT ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...BRIEF DAMAGING WINDS COULD ALSO OCCUR. $$ RWH/BWM
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 2:54 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:54 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 254 PM EDT WED MAY 3 2000 RATHER DEEP MOISTURE AND CAPES AROUND 1000 TO 1500 OVER THE WRN ZONES THIS EVENING. SHEAR IS PRACTICALLY NONEXISTENT...BUT SE FLOW OF 15 TO 20 KTS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. WL GO LIKELY POPS MTNS...AND MAY EVEN BUMP TO CATEGORICAL IF CONVERGENCE LOOKS IN INCREASE ANY MORE BEFORE ZONES GO OUT. WL GRADIENT POPS TO THE E W/NOTHING IN FAR ERN ZONES THIS EVENING. PLAN TO GO MOSTLY CLOUDY MOST AREAS OVERNIGHT W/WEAK WAA OVER SLIGHTLY COOLER SFC AIRMASS AND CONVECTIVE DEBRIS. WL ALSO MENTION PATCHY FOG. AIRMASS DRIES OUT QUITE A BIT ON THU...ESP OVER THE ERN ZONES. WL GO WL 40 POPS MTNS AND 30 IN THE FOOTHILLS. WL GO A LITTLE WARMER THAN RAFS AS M70S SEEMS A LITTLE COOL FOR THIS AIRMASS. DRYING CONTINUES TO SLOWLY SPREAD W THU NGHT AND FRI AS SUBSIDENCE FROM DEEP LAYER HIGH WORKS ACROSS MOST OF CWA. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A FEW TSRA COULD GO IN THE MTNS...BUT LIMITED CONVERGENCE NOT WORTH MENTIONING IN THE ZONES. DRY AND VERY WARM THROUGH THE EXTENDED. LOOKS LIKE BEST LLVL MOISTURE WL CONTINUE TO BE ADVECTED S AND W OF AREA AS BERMUDA HIGH CENTER SITS RIGHT OVER THE CWA. MTN POPS ALWAYS AN OPTION...BUT CONVERGE SHOULD BE WELL LESS THAN 20 PERCENT. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: AVL 53/73/54/76 543 CLT 59/77/57/82 21- GSP 59/77/57/81 21- .GSP...NONE. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 3, 10:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ048-051>053-058-059-062>065-SCZ001>006- 010-011-032300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1055 AM EDT WED MAY 3 2000 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. DRY AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT...AS WELL AS THE UPSTATE FROM GREENVILLE EAST. WEST OF THE FRONT...HOWEVER...CONDITIONS WILL STILL BE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. IN PARTICULAR...THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA WILL BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE BY LATE AFTERNOON. WITH LIGHT WINDS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE...THE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND RATHER SHORT LIVED. THUS...BRIEF DAMAGING WINDS AND DIME SIZED HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM A FEW OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WHICH FORM. MCAVOY
Local storm report, May 3, 3:12 PM EDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG, SC
312 PM EDT WED MAY 3 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0310 PM MAGGIE VALLEY NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/03/00 HAYWOOD COUNTY 911 REPORTED
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.